Session Information
Contribution
In recent years there has been a growth in interdisciplinary work which has argued that disability is not an isolated, individual medical pathology but instead a key defining social category like 'race', class and gender (kudlick, 2003). Seen in this way disability provides researchers with another analytic tool for exploring the nature of power. Running almost parallel in time with these academic developments has been a growing interest in the use of the visual in educational research. This growth in interest may be explained by Catherine Burke's observation that images - line drawings, still photography, film, video and digital technologies - have accompanied the development of state education from its beginning and that the 'the camera within the School has its own historical narrative reflecting change and continuities in ways of seeing education and children over time' (Burke 2004).This workshop will consist of an interdisciplinary dialogue around a set of images which capture disability and pedagogical practice. The images come from a large photographic archive held at Dr Guislain's Museum in Gent. The Museum is located in an asylum run by the Brothers of Charity. Many of the images in the archive were taken by Brother Ebergist Gustaaf de Deyne (1887-1943), who was a significant figure in the development of special education in Belgium and wrote L'education Sensorielle chez les Engfants Anormaux (1922) which includeed many of his photographs. Discussions towards a critical engagement with both the visual and the concept of disability.C Burke, 'Visualising the body of the school child: critical reflections on spaces of representation', unpublished paper Catherine Kudlick, "Disability History: Why We Need Another 'Other", The American Historical Review, 108, 3, (2003)Basis for international publication
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